Phrase Translation help

smokingman

Hi all,

While I do have a few words as Gaelige, I'm trying to find out what "Top of the world" is in Irish. This is in the "I feel on top of the world" vein and I don't think "Ard na Domhain" is it....is it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Slan,
-Eamonn

Blackjack

smokingman wrote:

Hi all,

While I do have a few words as Gaelige, I'm trying to find out what "Top of the world" is in Irish. This is in the "I feel on top of the world" vein and I don't think "Ard na Domhain" is it....is it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Slan,
-Eamonn

"Ar Bharr an Domhain" or "ós cionn an Domhain" is how I would have put it.
Would express a preference for the former, as ós cionn is the translation for above, rather than on top of.

smokingman

I'm actually asking as I have to name my house (foundations going in this week) and wanted something "as Gaelige" to express how I felt about it (it's been a long arduous process but I'm finally getting it built!)

Can you tell me what "Ard na Domhain" is so? Can it be interpreted as the above in any way or is it just "high up in the world" which sounds a bit "fullofmeself"

"Ar Bharr an Domhain" just isn't as catchy

Blackjack

Ard na Domhain would literally translate to "The top of the World", or Worlds, depending.

Rosita

If it is describing someone's mood, I would suggest "táim ar muin na muice" (literally - I'm on the pig's back, but meaning that things couldn't be better) as the best way to express this idiomatically without going down the road of literal translation which is generally not encouraged.

"Ar bharr an domhain" would I suppose be the best literal translation.

smokingman

Cheers for the replies and help all...much appreciated!

Think I'm going to go for Ard na Domhain after all.....just have to get it built now